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Seeing Cores

by James Shivers

Summary/Goals

Views. Perspectives. Students. Teachers. Lessons. Classroom space, digital space, spaces to explore.  The purpose of Seeing Cores is to provide practical, reflective resources for the 6-12 teacher.  These practices are attempts from and in a current classroom.  Seeing Cores is a space that seeks vibrant, challenging and engaging ways of bringing the Common Core into the classroom.

Outline & Direction of Posts

  • Explore the new content demands of fiction, non-fiction, and media can be facilitated by working directly with the visual arts
  • Provide ongoing snapshots into the day-to-day workings of visually integrated classroom
  • Discuss practical issues that arise –from supplies to technology—when embracing multimodal discourse
  • Discuss the pilot program framework and results of Expanding Literacies, Exploring Expression